Spawned in Omicron Major when starting a new game - FLHDE/freelancer-hd-edition GitHub Wiki

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If you find yourself in Omicron Major after starting a new game, Freelancer may not be able to properly initialize the saves directory. In the Windows File Explorer, open the following directory: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Freelancer (or C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Freelancer) and open the FLSpew.txt file with a text editor. If you see a line that says anything like: "flplusplus: failed to access the saves directory for reading and writing", it should mention the directory it failed to access. You can check the permission-related settings for the directory to ensure Freelancer has permission to read and write files in there. Alternatively, launch Freelancer as an administrator to see if that helps.

If the above suggestions did not help to resolve the problem, try the following:

  1. Make sure Freelancer: HD Edition is not installed in the Program Files or Program Files (x86) directory.
  2. Inside the EXE folder of your HD Edition installation directory, open the flplusplus.ini file.
  3. Inside this file, there should be a line that says save_in_directory = false.
  4. Change false to true.
  5. Save the file and exit.